Bug#863361: dgit-user(7): replace apt-get build-deps with mk-build-deps
David Kalnischkies writes ("Re: Bug#863361: dgit-user(7): replace apt-get
build-deps with mk-build-deps"):
> I would recommend not to recommend it because apt follows the general
> recommendation of not recommending the installation of recommendations
> of build-dependencies by default for all recommended Debian releases.
When you install the build-depends for unfamiliar programs, you are
trying to debug, do you install recommends ? I have found that it is
usually wiser not to.
Installing the recommends of build-depends typically shovels in
massive piles of junk, which is (a) a big download (b) often contains
daemons and other weirdness that is obviously not needed.
Ian.
Bug#863361: dgit-user(7): replace apt-get build-deps with mk-build-deps
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 03:33:17PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort writes ("Re: A proposal for a tool to build local
> testing debs"):
> > Or you can just do
> >
> > $ sudo apt-get build-dep ./
[…]
> Probably we should recommend --no-install-recommends.
I would recommend not to recommend it because apt follows the general
recommendation of not recommending the installation of recommendations
of build-dependencies by default for all recommended Debian releases.
Recommended summary: Already the default since 2011.
Recommending everyone to have a wonderful day,
David Kalnischkies
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Bug#863361: dgit-user(7): replace apt-get build-deps with mk-build-deps [and 2 more messages]
(CCing Nikolaus's bug.)
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort writes ("Re: A proposal for a tool to build local
testing debs"):
> Or you can just do
>
> $ sudo apt-get build-dep ./
That's not available in jessie of course, but ISTM that this is the
right answer for stretch. I won't upload a new dgit to stretch to
change this but I think I should change this in buster.
Probably we should recommend --no-install-recommends.
Ian.
Bug#863361: dgit-user(7): replace apt-get build-deps with mk-build-deps
Package: dgit Version: 3.10~bpo8+1 Severity: normal Please consider replacing % sudo apt-get build-dep glibc with % mk-build-dep --root-cmd=sudo --install That way, you won't get bitten if the build deps of the new package differ from the build deps of the package in the archive. Does build-dep require deb-src in sources.list? If so, the above removes that requirement as well. mk-build-deps is shipped by devscripts.
